THE LAST SEX WE HAD, CELAN’S 99TH BIRTHDAY

Georgii Martirosian

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Sweating under his Sam Browne belt and leather mask,
clinging to my body, he listens
to the bells of The Church of St. Louis of the French.


The semicircular apses of Cappadocia attract him
and the years of blooming life hang under the dome.
Milky white circles behind my ears trickle
down my ‘celan,’ tattoo;
the culture is fertilized by us – the evening boys who do not talk about love.
We shine like musgravites amphibious.

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Georgi Martirosian is a writer and PR Consultant. Born in 1997 in Belgorod, Russia. He is based in Moscow and was on the shortlist of the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Award (2020). He is the author of the book ‘If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem’ (‘ARGO-RISK’, 2021, Moscow), which was translated into Polish and English.